Re: [Vala] array declaration

[pancake <pancake youterm com>]

 18:46 < pancake>  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623856
18:48 < pancake> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623857

On 07/08/10 18:49, Bob Hazard wrote:
> Thanks Frederik that explains why you can't pass a fixed size array as
> a parameter.
>
> > Vala supports two types of arrays:
> >
> > 1) dynamically heap-allocated arrays:
> >
> > Vala, Java, C#: int[] a = new int[5];
> > C++: int* a = new int[5];
> > C: int* a = malloc (5 * sizeof (int));
> >
> >
> > 2) inline/stack-allocated fixed-size arrays:
> >
> > Vala: int a[5];
> > C++: int a[5];
> > C: int a[5];
> > Java: not supported
> > C#: unsafe { int* a = stackalloc int[5]; }
> >
> >
> > @pancake: 'new' combined with the latter type of array does not make
> > sense, since the 'new' keyword stands for dynamic alloation on the
> > heap. The Vala compiler should refuse to compile something like
> > 'int a[] = new int[5]'. So it's obviously a bug.
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